Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, some who have crossed Gotti have not lived to boast of it; those who have been scheduled to testify against him have suddenly lost their enthusiasm and much of their memory. It would be understandable for someone in Giacalone's position to worry about safety. "The thought does not even cross my mind," she says. "It's not Diane Giacalone that matters. It's the system. If I vanish, another prosecutor will be ready to try the case within a month. And let's not kid ourselves about who has more resources." She says the fact that...
...First I like to do things I like, and second, I like to make money, which I like." So says Albert Roux, who with Brother Michel owns several celebrated restaurants, including Le Gavroche in London and the Waterside Inn in nearby Bray. Both boast the Guide Michelin's top rating, three stars. The Rouxs are among a number of prestigious European chefs and restaurateurs opening branches in the U.S. Currently the brothers provide inspiration, advice and some financial backing to Michael's Waterside Inn, a superb and comfortably inviting restaurant in Santa Barbara, Calif. The inn, which opened...
...pages last week. Meanwhile 400 news and business staffers hoisted glasses of Chardonnay earlier this month to toast the opening of a new $28 million headquarters. The News's circulation now stands at 53,000, making it the state's largest paper. The Times, forced to remove its masthead boast eight months ago, has slipped to 40,000 and has hired its seventh managing editor in seven years. Observes Frank McCulloch, managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner: "If you had asked newspaper analysts seven years ago if it could be done, they all would have said, 'Impossible...
...news in Baltimore last week was about the news. On Tuesday reporters for the afternoon News American, which traced its roots to a weekly founded in 1773, learned that they were working on their last edition. Its banner headline: SO LONG, BALTIMORE. Thus the News American, which liked to boast that it published the Declaration of Independence, was unable to report a story on Wednesday: its rival, A.S. Abell Co., owner of the Baltimore Sun, would be sold for $600 million to the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror...
...signs leading from the airport into Vancouver boast IT'S OUR YEAR! C'EST NOTRE ANNEE! And so it is, in English, French and just about every other language of the globe. Surrounded on one side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...